Ongoing Research

• “Reconsidering the Politics-Administration Divide: Politics, Capacity, and Performance in U.S. Federal Agencies, 2002-2022.” Paper presented at the 2024 annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Philadelphia, PA, September 5-8.
• “Presidential Control and Interagency Networks,” (with Patrick Buhr), Manuscript, Vanderbilt University.
• “Obtaining Comparable Measures of Agency Performance: An Application to U.S. Federal Agencies, 2002-2022,” (with George Krause), Paper presented at the 2023 annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Los Angeles, CA, August 31 – September 3.
• “Building Effective Bureaucracy: Career Concerns, Productivity, and Politicization in the Public Sector,” (with Mauricio Bugarin), Manuscript, Vanderbilt University.

 

Active Working Papers

• “Building Effective Bureaucracy: Career Concerns, Productivity and Politicization in the Public Sector,” (with Mauricio Bugarin), Manuscript, Vanderbilt University.
• “When do Elections Matter? Appointments and Bureaucratic Resistance in the United States,” (with Mark D. Richardson) Paper prepared for presentation at the Public Management Research Conference, Chapel Hill, NC, June 11-14, 2019.